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[quote flu]Well , I guess for the M5, they put back in a real steering rack…So maybe it’s fine.[/quote]Actually it is a real steering rack. The power assist is now done with an electric motor as opposed to a power steering pump. Of course with the way that BMW has now done the electronics on this, ‘disabling’ the electronic steering will prevent the car from starting (or even having a sensor problem on the power assist will prevent car from starting – Simpson moment doh!) – kind of dumb, since the vehicle is still able to be steered w/o power assist.. they just did not put in a reasonable failsafe mode.

As for the problem with the steering, I think that BMW needs to work on their power assist profiles. The Electric motor is used instead of a standard power steering pump so that they can vary the ‘power assist’. What is interesting about power steering systems, is that some amount of ‘play’ in the steering system is required for them to function (to sense that the driver is applying torque in a direction). With old fashioned hydraulic systems, it was just enough motion to open a spool valve. On Saginaw systems, there is a torque beam that is used to transfer torque through the spool valve, and if enough torque is given to deform steering.. opens the spool valve. These systems could be ‘tuned’ by opening up the power steering units and changing the torque beam. Unfortunately most manufacturers tended to set the Sanginaws up with a very weak beam, giving almost no road feel.
— sorry, got a little OT here on steering. Been wrenching around w/ cars too much of my life.

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[quote harvey]I think a key word in there is “average.” [/quote]I even tried using the values they provide for the next boundary up.. (I think it was incomes 500k-1m)and its still goofy.

It would also be nice and more honest if they say that for incomes averaging Xmil the average tax cut would be $250,535 instead of choosing to correlate the lower bound of an arbitrary income boundary with the average of an unbounded range. Though note that if you use their income of $2,868,534 getting a tax cut of $725,716.. the numbers still don’t work (725,716 is 25.3% of 2,868534).

It also brings this saying to mind:
http://www.fortunewatch.com/the-obama-tax-system-explained-in-beer/

Looking at the cuts, it would be nice to know which ones of Romney’s cuts causes the ‘rich’ to have the greatest gain on their analysis. I suspect it is elimination of AMT. Most of the other changes are income limited.

[quote harvey]But I didn’t post this to provide a math exercise.[/quote]True.. but math often can reveal who is and isn’t ‘wearing clothes’ on their statements… and is in some ways ‘core’ to Piggington.

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Your math does not work.. 250,000 is 25% of 1mil.

Try some algebra on the following statement(solving for effective tax rate before and after. There are two unknowns and two expressions):

under Romney’s proposal, people with $1 million or more in annual cash income will receive an average tax cut of $250,535. Those in the millionaire category will receive an 11.8 percent increase in after-tax income

To get $250,000 in savings, you have to made a heck of a lot more then 1Mil.

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[quote=flu]meh… I’m so numb, I don’t care anymore…

Hmm. BAC is looking pretty tasty at $7/share….[/quote]
Wait for it.. let it come to you… Remember, it is May and the saying that goes with it.

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[quote=sdrealtor]And why is always the prudent renters whose tax dollars are supporting this. News flash, the prudent renters are a very small group and not the big taxpayers. It’s the rest of us prudent owners who make up the bulk of the taxpayers that are supporting this all.[/quote]Maybe the better term is the “Financially Prudent”.. because if you have paid off your house or are renting, you have have no mortgage interest deduction. If you have cash assets, inflation and overall poor return on investments will eat your assets.

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[quote=squat250]The only change I will make henceforth is to increase the number after squat.[/quote]So no bench200 preacher130 milpress120?

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[quote=briansd1]After all, living in the middle of nowhere is a personal choice. Why should the subscribers in urban areas subsidize those low density folks.[/quote]Because we are subsidizing the telcos through use of public land and right-of ways, including easements on private land for some underground cabling. Do you think they bought the land that all the cables for the telcos are in?

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[quote=flu]The old, hot potato game..Last person holding, loses….

come on folks, don’t you get it? Goldman wins during the Housing Bubble. Goldman wins during the Tech Bubble…. In fact, Goldman always wins.[/quote] .. because Goldman in in control of the Fed & Treasury..

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The signal cameras should not ‘arm’ until the light turns red. When it turns red, there is a sensor near the start of the intersection, just beyond where you stop.. that will trigger the camera. It is basically a wire loop put into the pavement by cutting a slot in it (kind of an over sized metal detector). There should be two picts taken, to verify that you didn’t ‘stop’ on that sensor.. and to validate speed.

Technically, the yellow light should last 1 second for every 10mph of the speed limit on the road that the red light will be stopping. This value is roughly tied to the amount of time a car takes to stop from that speed (safely), as a minimum. The lights don’t always obey it. NOTE: For 45mph, that would be nearly 5 seconds of yellow.

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This year, one additional rental property, and it’s only April, and I’ve already reached exceeded the 1000 commission free trades I’m allowed annually…

Turning into a daytrader? 1000 trades in 1 year averages out to about 4 a day. Do it by April, and you end up around 15 trades a day!!

Hope it is going well.. daytrading can end up eating capital.

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It could be that the vendor is trying to do too much with the software.. instead of just simply a wireless image transfer.

And from one of the ‘evals’.. (A comment for me, which would be a deal breaker), but there are people that feel that this is a ‘feature’ – section italicised:

This concept is possibly the best thing around and I’m not just referring to the card as a wifi device. Eye-Fi offer an excellent UI called Eye-Fi Center, an application which allows you to view the photographs very easily on your computer whilst the card transmits the photographs from the camera. Even better, the application then uploads the photographs to a proprietary website where you can store the photographs in their original format and size, including RAW formats. For $50 a year you get UNLIMITED storage capacity. The cherry on the cake is that you can allow the application to simultaneously upload the photographs to Facebook or any other social network for you. And the cherry on the cherry of the cake is that you can use a mobile device, such as an iPad, to do the work for you so you don’t have to lug a laptop around with you.

I think it is a bit tied into other OS(s).. maybe only iOS/OSX/Windows.. There has to be some sort of ‘receiver’ application for the transmissions… which may eliminate Android based devices(though their web site does mention Android)..

I wonder what the protocol for the File Transfers across WiFi are… TFTP? FTP?..

I wonder if it can temporarily store them on the card, then when it gets in range of an authorized running WiFi device (ie. android based tablet).. that it would transfer the files.. then when it gets out of range it will start caching them on the card again. That would be useful. It seems to indicate that it might.

One thing that puzzles me, is that it seems to indicate that only certain cards can handle raw.. bits is bits… shouldn’t matter.

DPReview’s take:
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/eye-fi
–it looks like they used the lower end card though..

Other note:

Also the automatic geotagging feature requires there to be a WiFi hotspot near your picture-taking location (it is not GPS).

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[quote=DataAgent]Looks interesting. However, the reviews on Amazon ain’t so hot.[/quote]
Interesting.. because that is not what I am seeing on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=eye-fi

NOTE: The CF – SD/SDHC adapter route is not recommended by the vendor… though in some instances it works.

There are mentions that you might want to use the ‘Eye-Fi Pro X2 if you plan use it for a lot of photos because it uses a higher bandwidth (802.11n?). Of course then you’ll need the appropriate ‘basestation’ or ‘WiFi transceiver’ in your computer to be able to use n (both sides have to be ‘n’ compat.. watch out for earlier ‘n’s because they are not necessarily up to standard)

On the other hand, there does seem to be some mention of it pusing things to an outside acct too? See second review down on this link:

It could be that the vendor is trying to do too much with the software.. instead of just simply a wireless image transfer.

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Not all of brasscraft’s stuff is made in America. I had problems with shutoff valves made by them. The threading on it was not NPT… it was off by ‘just that much’.. and was made in China for brasscraft.

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Geesh.. you had to say something.. now the market is going to do the exact opposite!

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[quote bearishgurl]Instead, they use the currently unemployed and underemployed “over 55 group” to work as part-part-timers and “consultants” (who receive Form 1099 instead of a W-2 form for the tax year). The over-55 “consultant” or “contract worker” needs 3-4 regular gigs to “eek out a living” from their home offices.[/quote]Speak for yourself… I think it depends upon the need for the consultant. Some are doing quite well. Others…? The other thing is that as a consultant working out of home, you can deduct a lot. This is also speaking from experience. I was an ‘older’ person laid off in 2008.. currently working as a consultant.

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